Can't install Gentoo linux on Dell Inspiron 530

[Walter Dnes]

  I at least have the keyboard functioning properly.  The boot line is

gentoo noapic irqpoll acpi=force

I found this via Google, where someone had a similar problem under Slax.
The busybox shell doesn't have fdisk or lspci.  I want to be able to
run "fdisk -l" and "lspci -v", to find out what exactly the install
sees.

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